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Current events
Canadian current events contains a listing on an ongoing automated basis of importance events, trends and newsworthy developments related to Canada. Below are listed 200 entries of the past 90 days of Canadian current events featured in the main page of the Canada portal.
- January 2, 2024 – 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision
- A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft collides with a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight are evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft are killed. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- December 20, 2023 –
- Canada implements a single-use plastic ban as part of its initiative to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030, despite a court ruling that deemed such restrictions unconstitutional. (AFP via Daily Tribune)
- November 26, 2023 –
- Three people are killed and two others are critically injured in a mass shooting at a residence in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (UPI)
- November 25, 2023 – 2023 U Sports football season
- In Canadian football, the Montreal Carabins defeat the UBC Thunderbirds 16–9 to win their second national university football championship. (CBC News)
- November 22, 2023 – 2023 Rainbow Bridge explosion
- A car explodes near the Canada–United States border at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, killing the two people inside the vehicle and injuring a border agent. The New York state government temporarily closes all border crossings between the United States and Canada in Western New York in response to the explosion. (Reuters)
- November 19, 2023 – 2023 CFL season
- In Canadian football, the Montreal Alouettes defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28–24, claiming their eighth Canadian Football League championship title. (TSN)
- November 17, 2023 – Rohingya genocide case
- Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom formally join the genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Myanmar, accusing Myanmar's military junta of committing genocide against the Rohingya people. (Al Jazeera)
- November 6, 2023 –
- Two people are killed and two others are injured when a tanker explodes outside the High Commission of Canada in Abuja, Nigeria. (CBC News)
- October 31, 2023 – International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly calls for a "temporary pause in hostilities" in Gaza, saying that "the humanitarian situation facing the Palestinian people, facing Palestinian women and children, is dire". (National Post)
- October 29, 2023 – 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a pro-Palestinian protest is held calling for the Canadian government to help push for a ceasefire. (CTV News Ottawa)
- October 23, 2023 –
- Five people are killed in a mass shooting in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. (CBC News)
- October 19, 2023 – Canada–India relations
- Canada withdraws 41 diplomats from India due to India's decision to revoke the diplomats' immunity following the death of Sikh independence leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. (AFP via NDTV)
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